Spirit Taming

Chapter 326: Angry Threats

The silence was quickly filled with many things. The audience that had seen Jerold and his beast easily sneak and kill their opponent burst in to cheers. They had not expected to see a death so early, but this was part of the tournament. It was not against the rules. This was to find the best of the best and reward them, of course holding back would limit that. Death was inevitable.

However, there was also the aura of rage from many. People had journeyed from the celestial sea academy, islands, and waters to see these battles. Now they had seen one of their own people defeated here and now. They were even defeated as if it was nothing.

"I will slaughter you!" The most enraged scream came from the last boy waiting for his turn to make a come back with his now deceased team member. The celestial sea student was enraged, it was clear by this uncontrolled energy and the fact that he was already rushing on to the area to face Jerold.

"Get back in this arena! You can't run, I will kill you now!" the boy rushed across the arena after Jerold since Jerold had already walked off.

Herold's face held a calm mask. It was as if he had just done something totally normal. However, Clark hadn't even flinched. He had been surprised, but he did not draw away in fear or anger. He had killed people too, those he had deemed cruel and evil. Those that would have also taken his and others' lives.

From what it appeared, Jerold had learned that lesson. He had faced people and learned to release the naive notion that the world was filled with love and adventure now that he was stronger even by a little.

"I can't battle, he knows my strategy and where I might be. If I-"

"You can't give every secret away. I will deal with this guy." Clark was the only one able to speak to Jerold. The others were stunned by the differences within him. Even Maria was unsure if she was looking at the same person they had seen just some days ago while leaving their homes to journey to Nebula city.

The boy rushing across the arena had already been stopped by the referee. Yet, his yelling and threatening were already growing. Shouts about how their family would hunt them down and slaughter their entire lineage grew in volume the longer Clark took to walk across the arena.

"So that condescending Brat was your brother? I can see you wear the same fancy clothing. It's nice but I doubt it will help you here." Clark could tell the clothing was decent and actually fairly defensive since it was made from beast materials. Unfortunately, he had seen better and didn't need something that looked flashy.

"I don't need to face some freak that carries a doll with him. Send out that worthless piece of chum out here. I am going to feed him to my sea serpent!" The boy's rage was not able to be quelled by Clark. The Referee thought otherwise though. Two students were in the arena and the bodies of beasts and the previous contestant were already gone.

"How sad, you don't even cry for your lost brother. Just threaten and fall in to a rage. I guess you will lose even faster then?" Clark's goading was brutal. Even the referee flinched a little. But the boy was even more affected. He waved a hand and released his beast from his taming space.

The water that had pooled in the arena seemed to rotate and twist as if trying to form waves. There was even a slightly more oppressive aura around that made Clark feel as if he was about to be struck by a large storm. Even the wind in the arena started to pick up.

'Young sea serpent- ultra rare

The sea serpent is one of many beasts that fall in to the sea serpent family of beasts. It is a direct lineage of the leviathan and even has a chance to become one if under extremely perfect conditions that stimulate its minute bloodline.

It has the unique water, wind, and lightning typing. It lacks the lightning and a strong wind affinity because of its young age. It has the ability to gain them as it grows and consumes the proper materials. Many would fail to stand against its strength when it can conjure small storms around where it battles in the ocean. It is even powerful on land.

The blood of it and its kind can be used as a material to strengthen many other beasts that rely on the ocean or similar body types that originated from the ocean. Even beasts that have long left the ocean may find benefit if they have similar body structure or other similar features.'

This information was very hard to grasp. A bloodline that originated with a powerful mythical beast like the leviathan was nothing to laugh at. However, it was not strong enough to stop Clark. He was sure that this beast was more showy than anything since it lacked a stronger wind affinity and the lightning affinity at all. It was too young to truly pose a major threat to Clark at all.

Or at least that's how he felt at the moment.

What interested Clark the most was that the blood of a sea serpent could be used as a material to strengthen beasts that were related to the ocean or had similar features. That made him think of Maria's Midnight eel and Lit. they were both not related to water, but had developed as a jellyfish and eel. They were clearly related to the oceans and should be able to gain something from leviathan blood.

The boy's rage had only grown as he saw how unimpressed Clark was. But his face turned to a gruesome smile, "You are so afraid that you have to face my glorious sea serpent. Just know that when I hatch the two other eggs that it and its siblings will be trampling your pathetic little city. You will all know suffering!"

"Oh, you have more? Can I have them when I kill the one here? Actually, can I just have the two eggs and this one's body? Or will I have to kill you too so that I can give them to people that won't act like you?"

"You! You'll have to take them from my cold dead body! You will be turned in to nothing but beast sh!t after I am done with you. You're a fool!" The referee grew tired of their yelling and stepped away allowing the battle to start.

"Good, Referee, you heard him. I can take the eggs and his sea serpent's body when he is dead. And after the threats to my city and how he wants war, it is best that I deal with this threat now." Clark calmly spoke as the sea serpent reared up. The blue scales reflected some light as its fins flared and it hissed at him. Long sharp needle like teeth were clear to the entire arena.

They were fearsome, and clearly able to penetrate any armor that Clark wore.

"Crimson, kill them. You have three minutes." As Clark stood completely still, his taming space opened. The brutal energy that escaped was enough to make the sea serpent shiver. It was oppressive. So much so that even the furthest away in the audience felt that they had just seen a glimpse in to a world that should not be.

As Crim stepped out in to the open, everyone was surprised at the smaller size. That was until Crim released the minimized body and took the largest size he could. The reverberating growl as Crims clawed at the arena before opening his wings made everyone feel that their heart could stop. It was a pure intimidation of a stronger species. Of a true born predator. Of a dragon.

"Dragon!"

"That's a dragon!"

"The Nova academy has a dragon this year!"

Shouts of surprise and cheers were already going out. However, the rage that Clark's opponent had was still true. Enough so to push the sea serpent forward. "Eat that fake little lizard. It's not a real dragon!"

Clark didn't react to the boy's foolish shouts. Instead, he watched Crim leap up and use his wings to get even higher. This brought Crim right to where the sea serpent's head was. With a roar and another flap of wings, the sea serpent found Crim on its head. The attempted bite that the sea serpent was going to attack with was failed.

All that the sea serpent felt was pain. Shredding claws tore through its blue and shiny scales. The defenses it had were nothing to crim's dragon claws. How could they be? Crim's claws were made to slash through the toughest of the tough defenses in the world of beasts. A dragon had to be at the top.

The moment that Crim felt he had pierced the skill of the sea serpent, he leaped in to the air and dove toward the boy still yelling in rage. As the boy sucked in a breath to shout again, this time in fear as it blossomed on his face, Crim landed on him.

With one single bite and a following roar of victory, Crim showed the world what a dragon was. What even the youngest of dragons could do. Brutality and power. Overbearing and unstoppable power. That was the rule of dragons. That was what everyone heard and now witnessed.

Clark calmly walked to the body of the fallen sea serpent and took it away with his spatial ring. He then went to the boy's defeated body and grabbed the spatial ring to take the eggs.

A few people yelled in protest but the referee stopped them. The boy had agreed to let Clark have them over his dead body. It was a bet between contestants. It was allowed. No one would stop it. This only enraged the celestial sea members even more.

However, those from Nova academy, especially the teachers that came, cheered seeing the victory and potential threat to the city crushed like it was nothing.